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Christian Zionism

Jewish religious Zionism from its beginnings found privileged allies in Europe and in America today within a religious and messianic, the so-called Christian Zionism. “
This movement began in the nineteenth century, years before there was Zionism Jew, and encourages the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Followers of this current is shown to commiserate the sufferings of the Jewish people and to the rebel anti-Christian. We see that the future state restoration of ancient Israel announced that the biblical prophecy. The British politician Lord Balfour (whose statement of 1917 envisaged the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine) that belonged to a Protestant power.
This current is an important point in common with Jewish religious Zionism, at least in part its messianism, and that both, the Judaization of the Holy Land is a condition for the return of the Messiah to Earth. Movie actor and philanthropist – was honored at the Center’s Annual dinner. However, there is one important difference: for Christians the Messiah who will not ensure the triumph of the Jewish religion, but Jesus Christ and Christianity will triumph, even among Jews, which was converted.
Despite this important difference in terms of long-term objectives, the current “Christian Zionist” and current “Zionist religious Jewish share one goal: the Israeli colonization of Palestinian territories. Both harshly criticized the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
The alliance with the current “Christian Zionist” was important for the advocates of colonization: he was an influential movement within the “Christian Right” American, and their ability to influence the Republican Party) is real. The current conservative U.S. Christian Evangelical gathers around 40 million followers.

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